I'm not sure if you're sarcastically talking about the ban on protesting outside parliament but, its a joke. every month someone manages to climb on the roof, in fact more often than not its the same person, then there's the guy who lives on the street opposite with a collection of anti-war banners, and the occasional protest. its all a bit of fun really which is why we want to keep it that way. I've already gotten used to seeing armed police all around the area and that's about as much as i want to get used to seeing.
Someone needs to be fired for this badly estimated over-engineering, if something is designed to last a few months and instead lasts a few years then you've made a mistake.
Not surprising really, if you think about it your data is usually only a few bits away from going somewhere you dont want, its just a question of how many bits and how likely they are to be corrupted.
You think you've got it bad, in the UK we've had hecklers arrested under the terrorism act, its dropped when someone more senior realises whats going on but the absolute fucking cheek of it, how dare a law enforcement officer arrest an 80 year old man 'under suspicion of terrorism' for telling the prime minister he was full of crap, when they know full fucking well that it has nothing to do with terrorism. It makes you speechless that some fucking cunt could do this, abusing a law like that is like police brutality. I want to see people outraged every time this happens but peoples outrage is slowly eroding away. There are police and people in the government who will stick up for us and try and stop this abuse but it seems like they are shrinking. This is the kind of bullshit we said would happen when these laws were created - who was right? If you are ever confronted by police who threaten to arrest you under some terrorism law 'because they can' when that clearly doesn't apply, make sure you take it all the way with complaints and legal action, they need to be fired its as simple as that.
I wouldn't recommend the Chinese market at the moment, I am hearing good things about Cambodia though. Have a look in the local papers - there are people willing to sell dozens at a time. Tell them you're from Nike, they'll give you a discount.
Since when did you think you lived in a totally free capitalist society? Whats tax if its not communism? The government does nudge the course of the economy fact, if you don't like it go find a country where it doesn't happen.
Yes and thats why capitalism works so well. The government should not be saying "you can't drive this car its too wasteful" they should be saying "you can drive whatever car you like, but if it gets 12 mpg don't come crying to us when you can't afford to fuel it any more". The incentives need to be balanced out properly and thats the job that governments are failing at. They need to be raising the bars so that only a certain percentage of people choose to drive SUVs.
In the UK the fuel prices are 3-4 times the US, its all tax, then there's the congestion charge in London which is a crap idea only because its too cheap and not focused enough on allowing people who need to be driving there and preventing people who don't. Traffic in the city is still reaching its limit and traffic builds up around the edge of the zone too. I think its as much the government being lazy as it is the consumer, no-one is going to rock the boat because there are too many little complex things riding on it. They definitely need to stop letting SUV's off, you just cant have a world where everyone drives a truck.
I give my Chinese sweatshop kids a raise now and again, usually about a cent a month extra, sometimes a dollar bonus if they've been churning out consistently good shoes. It keeps moral up and gives them the belief that they might one day make enough money to break free of their shackles. I would warn bosses against so called 'perk raises' for example taking the number of tardiness lashings down might seem like a good idea but I've had problems when the workers start boasting about it and eventually UNICEF or someone finds out that we actually _are_ lashing them. That was a pretty costly lawsuit. In all I would say treat em mean and keep em keen. Its far better to threaten a wage reduction for poor work than to offer a raise for good work, instead just tell them that you're only paying the Pakistani kids half the price and that will get them feeling pretty good.
As fuel prices increase, everyone has an incentive to do _something_ that reduces their fuel consumption, walking, better mpg, moving home etc.
The government should be the ones nudging the course of the economy and environment by taxing fuel and penalising pollution the right amount. For too long *some* countries in the world (no names) have been taking fuel for granted, im sorry but you just cant all spend your life driving everywhere you go in a 12 mpg truck, the economics of that lifestyle on mass are just not compatible with the worlds resources and atmosphere, your hummer is causing a deficit somewhere, and somehow that deficit needs to be collected, whether its from fuel tax, emissions ratings or whatever.
Yeah I know in reality capitalism probably doesn't work like that, but there is definitely something wrong when I can't afford to have a car because in my country the costs are through the roof and in other countries you can't afford not to have a car because the costs are so low.
They're gonna get past bullshit US security one way or another, hell if all else fails they can just go through mexico. Its not like drug runners don't already get through on a daily basis, so who knows who else is doing it, sonar or not.
Conservative Republicans are almost all repressed nymphomaniacs. it would be a bomb waiting to explode, and since they wouldn't abort and probably wouldnt use contraception... well... you can only imagine what you would find when the ship came back to earth.
The only device that you are guaranteed to take everywhere with you every day is your mobile phone (unless you're one of those people). The device of the future is going to be the mobile phone, it will have lots more memory, as big a screen as you can give it and it will be a PDA. People don't always take their mp3 players or pdas with them because they're something extra but they do take their phones. Its all about wireless connectivity of some sort.
Perhaps Blair could divert some funds from his new Trident missile replacement system, the one that costs an arm and a leg but will never actually be used? You know, all that crazy 'making a good example for the rest of the world' thing?
Do you think I give a shit about anything that does not have pictures? Why do people think its perfectly ok to post stories that are useless without pics, without pics!? And no, I'm not going to go through the comments looking for a link, why should I? it should damn well be updated in the story at the top of the page.
Then why not just get rid of the DMCA? for fucks sake it makes no sense to have a DMCA and an add-on law that says you're only breaking the law if you break protection to violate copyright - why not just simplify the whole thing and get rid of the DMCA - if you break protection for piracy then you've already broken the law, the fact that you broke the protection should mean nothing, otherwise, why not just implement DRM that can be by-passed by clicking on 'turn off DRM' which then shows you a legal agreement you must accept?
Im assuming they're not doing anything too dangerous here, but if they were, its comforting to know that their research lab probably had several security funding cuts over the last few years (who needs security?) and the working practices of the staff probably include such classics as propping the doors open for the cleaners and not locking the safe because 'the boss keeps forgetting the code'.
We all know how amazing robotic guns are supposed to work and how they 'really' work. In reality, the soldiers dog tag breaks and fails to transmit the signal, part of the servo mechanism gets shot and the robot falls over while its shooting and fires in random directions, the robot shoots at random things like cars back-firing, rocks falling and dogs barking and occasionally it just fires off a few rounds for no apparent reason. I think the guy was right when he said keep a man in the loop...
That second trip to the rental shop to return your DVD is very important for their business. They want you to come back and see something else you want to rent, so why exactly would any rental shop support a product that not only removes that extra trip but also must be replaced all the time, for every bloody title that the shop carries, every time someone rents it. This could only be useful for postal DVD rental which is going to be dead soon. I won't even get started on one-play = one-rip.
..to cut the marketing bs, its a PDA, with a wireless card, stuck to a digital camera.
Of course all this misses the real point that all anyone really wants is a phone with cheap net access where-ever you are, and bluetooth etc so you can connect your nice digital camera to it.
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I'm not sure if you're sarcastically talking about the ban on protesting outside parliament but, its a joke. every month someone manages to climb on the roof, in fact more often than not its the same person, then there's the guy who lives on the street opposite with a collection of anti-war banners, and the occasional protest. its all a bit of fun really which is why we want to keep it that way. I've already gotten used to seeing armed police all around the area and that's about as much as i want to get used to seeing.
Looks like people will have to return to having meetings in the shower.
Someone needs to be fired for this badly estimated over-engineering, if something is designed to last a few months and instead lasts a few years then you've made a mistake.
Not surprising really, if you think about it your data is usually only a few bits away from going somewhere you dont want, its just a question of how many bits and how likely they are to be corrupted.
You think you've got it bad, in the UK we've had hecklers arrested under the terrorism act, its dropped when someone more senior realises whats going on but the absolute fucking cheek of it, how dare a law enforcement officer arrest an 80 year old man 'under suspicion of terrorism' for telling the prime minister he was full of crap, when they know full fucking well that it has nothing to do with terrorism. It makes you speechless that some fucking cunt could do this, abusing a law like that is like police brutality. I want to see people outraged every time this happens but peoples outrage is slowly eroding away. There are police and people in the government who will stick up for us and try and stop this abuse but it seems like they are shrinking. This is the kind of bullshit we said would happen when these laws were created - who was right? If you are ever confronted by police who threaten to arrest you under some terrorism law 'because they can' when that clearly doesn't apply, make sure you take it all the way with complaints and legal action, they need to be fired its as simple as that.
I wouldn't recommend the Chinese market at the moment, I am hearing good things about Cambodia though. Have a look in the local papers - there are people willing to sell dozens at a time. Tell them you're from Nike, they'll give you a discount.
Since when did you think you lived in a totally free capitalist society? Whats tax if its not communism? The government does nudge the course of the economy fact, if you don't like it go find a country where it doesn't happen.
Yes and thats why capitalism works so well. The government should not be saying "you can't drive this car its too wasteful" they should be saying "you can drive whatever car you like, but if it gets 12 mpg don't come crying to us when you can't afford to fuel it any more". The incentives need to be balanced out properly and thats the job that governments are failing at. They need to be raising the bars so that only a certain percentage of people choose to drive SUVs.
In the UK the fuel prices are 3-4 times the US, its all tax, then there's the congestion charge in London which is a crap idea only because its too cheap and not focused enough on allowing people who need to be driving there and preventing people who don't. Traffic in the city is still reaching its limit and traffic builds up around the edge of the zone too. I think its as much the government being lazy as it is the consumer, no-one is going to rock the boat because there are too many little complex things riding on it. They definitely need to stop letting SUV's off, you just cant have a world where everyone drives a truck.
I give my Chinese sweatshop kids a raise now and again, usually about a cent a month extra, sometimes a dollar bonus if they've been churning out consistently good shoes. It keeps moral up and gives them the belief that they might one day make enough money to break free of their shackles. I would warn bosses against so called 'perk raises' for example taking the number of tardiness lashings down might seem like a good idea but I've had problems when the workers start boasting about it and eventually UNICEF or someone finds out that we actually _are_ lashing them. That was a pretty costly lawsuit. In all I would say treat em mean and keep em keen. Its far better to threaten a wage reduction for poor work than to offer a raise for good work, instead just tell them that you're only paying the Pakistani kids half the price and that will get them feeling pretty good.
Why not let capitalism be the incentive?
As fuel prices increase, everyone has an incentive to do _something_ that reduces their fuel consumption, walking, better mpg, moving home etc.
The government should be the ones nudging the course of the economy and environment by taxing fuel and penalising pollution the right amount. For too long *some* countries in the world (no names) have been taking fuel for granted, im sorry but you just cant all spend your life driving everywhere you go in a 12 mpg truck, the economics of that lifestyle on mass are just not compatible with the worlds resources and atmosphere, your hummer is causing a deficit somewhere, and somehow that deficit needs to be collected, whether its from fuel tax, emissions ratings or whatever.
Yeah I know in reality capitalism probably doesn't work like that, but there is definitely something wrong when I can't afford to have a car because in my country the costs are through the roof and in other countries you can't afford not to have a car because the costs are so low.
They're gonna get past bullshit US security one way or another, hell if all else fails they can just go through mexico. Its not like drug runners don't already get through on a daily basis, so who knows who else is doing it, sonar or not.
Conservative Republicans are almost all repressed nymphomaniacs. it would be a bomb waiting to explode, and since they wouldn't abort and probably wouldnt use contraception... well... you can only imagine what you would find when the ship came back to earth.
Its ok we can put all the nuclear power stations in Wales.
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The only device that you are guaranteed to take everywhere with you every day is your mobile phone (unless you're one of those people). The device of the future is going to be the mobile phone, it will have lots more memory, as big a screen as you can give it and it will be a PDA. People don't always take their mp3 players or pdas with them because they're something extra but they do take their phones. Its all about wireless connectivity of some sort.
Perhaps Blair could divert some funds from his new Trident missile replacement system, the one that costs an arm and a leg but will never actually be used? You know, all that crazy 'making a good example for the rest of the world' thing?
Do you think I give a shit about anything that does not have pictures? Why do people think its perfectly ok to post stories that are useless without pics, without pics!? And no, I'm not going to go through the comments looking for a link, why should I? it should damn well be updated in the story at the top of the page.
Then why not just get rid of the DMCA? for fucks sake it makes no sense to have a DMCA and an add-on law that says you're only breaking the law if you break protection to violate copyright - why not just simplify the whole thing and get rid of the DMCA - if you break protection for piracy then you've already broken the law, the fact that you broke the protection should mean nothing, otherwise, why not just implement DRM that can be by-passed by clicking on 'turn off DRM' which then shows you a legal agreement you must accept?
Im assuming they're not doing anything too dangerous here, but if they were, its comforting to know that their research lab probably had several security funding cuts over the last few years (who needs security?) and the working practices of the staff probably include such classics as propping the doors open for the cleaners and not locking the safe because 'the boss keeps forgetting the code'.
Some do, but even if you're only dropping it in the box you're still going to see the window display.
We all know how amazing robotic guns are supposed to work and how they 'really' work. In reality, the soldiers dog tag breaks and fails to transmit the signal, part of the servo mechanism gets shot and the robot falls over while its shooting and fires in random directions, the robot shoots at random things like cars back-firing, rocks falling and dogs barking and occasionally it just fires off a few rounds for no apparent reason. I think the guy was right when he said keep a man in the loop...
That second trip to the rental shop to return your DVD is very important for their business. They want you to come back and see something else you want to rent, so why exactly would any rental shop support a product that not only removes that extra trip but also must be replaced all the time, for every bloody title that the shop carries, every time someone rents it. This could only be useful for postal DVD rental which is going to be dead soon. I won't even get started on one-play = one-rip.
Yes, but how would that make money for Kodak?
..to cut the marketing bs, its a PDA, with a wireless card, stuck to a digital camera.
Of course all this misses the real point that all anyone really wants is a phone with cheap net access where-ever you are, and bluetooth etc so you can connect your nice digital camera to it.